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Blast during a Taliban meeting in Pakistan kills 30 including ISI members
[KhaamaPress] A powerful explosion destroyed a religious school during a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 meeting on Friday evening in Quetta, Pakistain claiming at least 30 dead including key Taliban and ISI members, a security source confirmed.

A reliable Afghan security source from the who did not want to be named in the report told Khaama Press that according to intelligence reports, the earth-shattering kaboom took place when several key Taliban members including Sheikh Abdul Karim (Taliban’s supreme judge), Sheikh Abdul Karim’s brother, 3 Pakistain’s ISI members and some drug smugglers were sitting together on Friday evening in a religious school,
...an interestingly varied group, to be sure...
besides a prayer mosque in Ishaqabad area, in Quetta of Pakistain.

"The explosion has occurred during an important meeting between the Talibs, ISI members, and drug smugglers", the source said.
Planning something, perhaps? How sad for them that no one will ever know.
Going over expense/revenue reports to get their taxes done early....
According to this Afghan security source, at least 30 people have been killed in this explosion including 3 ISI members, Sheikh Abdul Karim’s brother, Haji Mohammad Halim, Mawlavi Haji Ahmad Khan, Gul Agha Akhund, Mawlavi Amanullah and Haji Ahmad Khan, who were key Taliban members.
Ok, guys— you can check those names off your To Do list — they’re too done.(Oh hush, dear Reader — I know exactly what I did, and I’m not sorry.)
The security source believes that the motive behind this explosion is due to the recent internal conflicts between the Taliban members.

But, according to Pakistain news agencies, the incident has taken place in a mosque during an evening prayer time, killing a police brass hat, 13 civilians and injuring 20 other worshippers.

Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
 and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s chief minister, Jam Kamal Khan, condemned the attack. In a statement, Pakistain’s military said soldiers were at the scene of the attack to assist civil authorities.

No individual or group have immediately grabbed credit for the bombing.


A blast inside a mosque in Quetta's Satellite Town area during Friday evening prayers claimed 15 lives and left 19 people injured, Balochistan Home Minister Zia Langove confirmed.

The mosque is located in a densely populated Pashtun-majority neighbourhood.

Fida Mohammad, who was attending the Maghrib prayers, said about 60 people were present at the time of the attack on the mosque, located in Ghousabad neighbourhood. The explosion ripped through the front row of worshippers seconds after the prayer began, he told AFP.

The incident comes three days after a motorcycle parked close to a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle blew up in Quetta, leaving two people dead and another 14 injured. That blast, claimed by Hizbul Ahrar — an offshoot of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), had come after a respite of some weeks in what has traditionally been a violence-prone area.

Mullah Abdul Hakim bites dust in big blast in Quetta mosque
An interesting Twitter thread worth scrolling through to watch the story develop, with photos.


Posted by: trailing wife 2020-01-11
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